Product Description
SIGNED BY SHIPPEY on the front free endpaper as follows: "Best luck Lee Shippey.
" 8vo.
203p.
Decorative initial letters.
Index.
Blue cloth with gilt letters and decorations on the spine.
No noticeable wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, gilt bright, tiny sticker stain on front free endpaper, else fine with no internal markings.
Dust jacket near fine and not price clipped.
Born in Memphis, TN in 1884, Henry Lee Shippey, who wrote under the name "Lee Shippey," was an American author and journalist who wrote a popular column in the Los Angeles Times for 22 years, "The Lee Side o' L.
A.
" and "The Seymour Family," living for some of that time in Sierra Madre, California.
Shippey retired in 1949, moved back to Del Mar, where he started writing columns for three San Diego County newspapers.
He died in 1969 in Encinitas, CA.
This autobiography tells his remarkable story.
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